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Topic: Why won't the bees leave the super? (Read 1768 times)

After extracting honey from a couple supers on Monday, I placed the supers with wet comb on top each of their respective hives, like I've done every other time before (above the inner cover). Went to pull what I thought would be empty dry supers off tonight, and found them instead full of bees putting more honey in. There were still two supers with incompletely filled comb below each. I thought they tended to rob the wet comb and take it into the hive. Anyone know why they might do this?

I also noticed that my bee escapes no longer seem to work. These are very full hives.

Lots of factors influence this. If the temps haven't moderated yet, the broodnest is already full, and a Fall flow is happening, they are going to put it somewhere. I read recently that somebody was having a similar problem, so they added another box between the brood nest and the wet supers. As soon as that was done, the bees pulled the honey right down. Maybe they weren't ready to consolidate and backfill the broodnest, or maybe they didn't see the hive as being broken up by the inner cover.

The goldenrod is just beginning here, but the temps at night have been down in the mid-50s. I thought I might help them prep for winter a little by squeezing them down in stages. But they obviously had different ideas.